"Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living; they don't talk or look like me. The rhythm of their day is entirely different; I am foreign."

-- Frances Mayes

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“It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back.”
“The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that.”

Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.129, Spiegel & Grau
“Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.”
“There is no better test of a man's integrity than his behavior when he is wrong.”
“To be adult in relationship is not to be conflict-free, it's to resolve conflicts mindfully.”
“You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.”
“How many pages are there in my life?? Iâ€™ve read only a prologue.. But personally itâ€™s exciting already.”
“We get a better book when everyone's allowed to do their best work on it. I don't want to prevent anybody from bringing their ideas to a project.”

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